Time Braid

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Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto.

Author’s Note: The idea for a Groundhog Day-style time loop centered on the Chuunin Exam originates with Perfect Lionheart’s story “Chuunin Exam Day” (at least, that’s the first place I’d ever seen the idea). But as will quickly become apparent, that plot device is about the only thing this story and that one have in common.

I’m ashamed to admit it, but despite all my claims of being a strong, independent kunoichi I’d looped a half-dozen times before it ever occurred to me that this was one problem I’d have to solve for myself.

My first time was especially embarrassing, though at least I had the excuse of ignorance. I started awake with a scream, my head still full of the disastrous fight with that snake-wielding ninja who’d attacked my team in the Forest of Death. I’d died slowly, drowning in my own blood while poor, brave Naruto went down trying to defend me. He called out more of that strange red chakra than I’d ever seen before, so much that it formed a solid aura around his body, but it didn’t make any difference.

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